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ACCT20048 Management Accounting Systems

Course details

This course confronts students to: understand the relationship between the management control system and the structure and strategies of the firm; identify impacts of goal incongruities; identify problems caused by information asymmetry, bounded rationality, opportunism; consider factors influencing the design and success of the Management accounting control system and identify effects of alternative performance evaluation and control systems. Topics include: Historical evolution and literature of management accounting; Issues in management accounting systems and needs; Issues in goals and goal congruence; Issues in organisation structure; Issues in strategic planning and budgeting; Issues in cost allocations including ABC and ABM; Issues in controlling costs in manufacturing organisations; Issues in controlling costs in service organisations; Issues in working capital management; Issues in fixed capital management (ECM); Issues in problems of multinationals and controls of projects; design of management accounting systems.


Course at a glance
Career: Postgraduate
Credit points: 8
Requisites: This course has no pre/co-requisites
Student Contribution Band: 3A
EFTSL: 0.16667
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2008 Term One BNE FLEX GDC MEL NZDS ROK SYD
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